Flash
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I was pretty stoked to see a thread that was going to talk about the science behind global warming 'hottest years evah'. but as usual it is just 10 pages of personal attacks and nonsense. oh well.
BTW evolution is just a tool that adapts lifeforms. it has no explanations as to how life came into being in the first place. life is either an astronomically improbable fluke or ......
This thread started out with a news article that stated that 2013 was the hottest year on record.
It was pointed out that the claim was made because of an extremely minute difference.
Then there was some discussion on how unreliable global temperature data is.
Then it was mention how the AGW scam artists have manipulated data to fix their models. This was all exposed in Climategate.
This is a typical AGW threat. The Moon Bats have a religious like cult following on the subject and despite all the evidence to the contrary absolutely refuses to believe in the scam.
I'll give you the bottom line on this issue.
Scientist first came up with a theory that because burning fossil fuels produces CO2 gasses then the CO2 will produce a greenhouse effect on earth raising temperatures.
That was a valid theory. They even looked at preliminary data that showed a correlation between atmospheric CO2 levels and world wide temperatures and it showed a rise in both.
However, then is where the real science began to fall apart and the scam began.
Because the initial correlation showed rise in CO2 levels and temperature there was a lot of money put into research. The research mostly consisted of computer modeling.
The science was distorted in order to provide the computer models with the data to support the theory.
For instance, the data that shows historically that CO2 levels lag temperature was ignored.
Data showing that in the past the CO2 levels were ten times higher but yet the earth was much cooler and data showing that at times the CO2 levels were lower but yet the earth was warmer were mostly ignored in the computer models.
World wide temperature data was manipulated like we saw in Al Gore's hocky stick picture where data was cherry picked. When the scientist used all the data then the picture was different.
Assumptions were made about historical temperatures that were indefensible based upon the sparse data collected.
The assumptions about how CO2 really chemically reacts in the atmosphere was mostly ignored. CO2 does not react the same in real life that it does in the theoretical computer models.
Then there was the Climategate revelations that data was manipulated by the scientists in order to prove what could not be proven with real data. This really blew the whistle on the scam.
Then you have the fact that after 30 years of this theory there is no credible evidence that the the climate on earth is getting warmer due to man made influence. In fact the climate has been relatively stable for the last 15 years despite counties like China putting out tremendous more amounts of CO2 gasses. There is very credible evidence that the earth may be moving back into another mini ice age like happens every few hundred years. The last one was in Medieval times.
AGW is just bad science because it has become a political issue . Too bad it has turned from a valid science discussion into a division between the Left and the Right.
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